About IPAAFF

Get ready for IPAAFF 2017! Festival dates will be April 20-22, 2017. We are now accepting film submissions for our 3rd annual Ithaca Pan Asian American Film Festival! The early bird deadline is January 1, 2017! Click here to submit your film: https://filmfreeway.com/festival/ithacapaaff

Congratulations to the winners of our first-ever Ithaca Pan Asian American Film Festival awards! The winners for IPAAFF 2016 are:

Student Film: Beats of the Southern Style

Fiction: The Waltz

Documentary: Coming Full Circle

Audience Choice: Pamanhikan

Thank you to everyone who made IPAAFF 2016 possible! We would like to thank you all for joining us at the film screenings, workshops, and play reading. The festival could not have been possible without your support, and we hope to see you next year at IPAAFF 2017!

We are no longer accepting film submissions for 2016. Thank you to everyone who submitted, and we hope you consider submitting again next year.

Here is the finalized festival schedule for 2016:

Highlights, April 20-24, 2015

Missed the festival? Check out our highlights from the first-ever Ithaca Pan Asian American Film Festival!

The Ithaca Pan Asian American Film Festival is a project driven by students, faculty, and Ithaca community members. This film festival is a fruitful collaboration between the School for the Humanities and Sciences and the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. As a first-time film festival, we strongly believe that fostering intellectual growth, aesthetic appreciation, and character development not only occurs in the classroom, but also outside the classroom and in everyday action. Check out our trailer below!

Over a five-day venue held from April 20 to April 24, 2015, we will showcase short and feature length films by and of Asian Americans. Through film screenings and panel discussions, IPAAFF aims to present material that will engage audiences in active participation and challenge them to think about race, agency, experiences, and ideologies in new ways.

Mission Statement

The Ithaca Pan Asian American Film Festival is dedicated to supporting Asian American film, video and media makers both nationwide and throughout the upstate New York area while promoting films created by, starring, and/or about Asian Americans.

The Ithaca Pan Asian American Film Festival aims to:

Develop and support both emerging and experienced Asian American filmmakers and artists who work in a range of genres and styles

Engage audiences in a diverse and complex spectrum of Asian and Asian American works

Present students with the opportunity to learn about Asian American film and gain event-planning skills